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When you were going to make me cry all my life Then why did you make my heart happy Once? Even when you’re close you seem so far away Then why did you take my heart in haste Once? Our memories Are not parts of reminiscence Your lips Were not meant for a warm-hearted man to kiss When you were going to wake me up every night Then why did you sing me a lullaby Once? When you were going to leave me tonight When why did you promise never to say goodbye Once? Our secrets Should be considered as lies Our moments Should be delivered to someone else’s mind When you were going to make me cry all my life Then why did you make my heart happy Once? Even when you’re close you seem so far away Then why did you take my heart in haste Once? …

Whispering in small, invisible voices Strange and mysterious Opportunities pass me by Like the scintillating snowflakes falling from the sky That melt when they touch the skin Leaving the sensation of regret and of guilt As a chilly, deathly wind blows These snowflakes fall into the soiled snow Piled high, covering the entire street This graveyard of opportunities Ignored and unseen. Upon this snow, stands a snowman With a furry coat, a colourful hat And a big, comical smile on his face For a moment, light reflects off his surface Sunlight,as it manages to briefly escape the clouds All around, A dazzling yellow glow For me it my be a symbol of hope Yet for the snowman it spells his death. But still he got his chance in the end To have lived, to be content and happy Unlike me And unlike the homeless man that shivers on the bench Whose only protection is a tattered blanket. The snowflakes fall down like his invisible tears His face contorted, teeth clenched, in...

Oh, how you let a man yearn Cause his heart to burn Without even trying Oh, how you tempt a man into your life How you exempt a man from your life Without even crying Your beauty radiates It glows further luminous than the moon Falls down harder than the monsoon Your beauty radiates Brighter than the sun Makes every guy's head turn Oh, how your eyes gaze into my soul How your complexion makes me whole Is above me Oh, how your lips are Redder than any Rose How is our story still untold? May be because you don't truthfully love me Your beauty radiates It awakens the heavens You make all the angels your servants Your beauty radiates It makes me feel alive Hypnotizes me into thinking I'll never die And how I'm caught up in those eyes of yours Even after death we could be lovers If only you'd love me too And how you are my every sunset Your words would truly be heaven-sent If you'd only not let them hurt me too...